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The Fly and Science Fiction Horror (1958 – 1989)

Posted on June 10, 2025June 7, 2025 by Mike Brooks

The history of The Fly in film is a fascinating journey of horror, science fiction, and transformation, while spanning decades of cinematic innovation. Originating from a short story by George Langelaan, The Fly has morphed into a cultural icon through its various iterations on the big screen. Versions of this story have often reflected the…

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) – Review

Posted on November 8, 2024November 7, 2024 by Mike Brooks

Tackling a remake of a much-beloved classic was certainly a daunting task but in 1978 director Philip Kaufman set his sights on helming a remake of the 1950’s classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a film that blended the communist scare and science fiction in a not-too-subtle way, and made his own masterclass in paranoia.

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The Fly II (1989) – Review

Posted on October 22, 2024October 18, 2024 by Mike Brooks

In 1986 David Cronenberg helmed one of the all-time great horror remakes, unfortunately for us, Cronenberg wasn’t interested in tackling a sequel, so instead of us getting another intelligent adult horror film the people over at Fox gave us a generic teenage monster movie that had none of the thematic elements of the original.

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The Fly (1986) – Review

Posted on October 18, 2024October 16, 2024 by Mike Brooks

When you think of the term “Body Horror” one filmmaker leaps readily to mind, David Cronenberg.  While he’d been dabbling in that arena since his directorial debut with Shivers, which came out way back in 1975, it was in 1986 that he helmed his crowning achievement in this field of horror with his remake of…

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Independence Day (1996) – Review

Posted on September 19, 2023September 18, 2023 by Mike Brooks

Alien invasion films have been a staple of science fiction movies for decades with such classics as George Pal’s War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers bringing alien destruction to the big screen, but in 1996 Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich took that standard sci-fi element and blended it with…

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